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A track by this musician was re-recorded with a choir for his mentor’s album Up with Donald Byrd. A syncopated bass ostinato built on a B-flat minor 7 to E-flat 7 progression opens a track by this musician before saxes and (10[1])trumpet enter with three sets of two quick sixteenth notes on the notes (10[1])B-flat, A-flat, B-flat. This musician began using electric instruments like the Fender Rhodes while a member of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet. A track by this musician begins with percussionist Bill Summers imitating hindewhu music by blowing into beer bottles. That song is the opening track of this musician’s debut album Takin’ Off, and was recorded in a funk style on his album Head Hunters. (10[1])For 10 points, name this jazz pianist who recorded the tracks “Watermelon Man” and “Chameleon.” ■END■ (0[3])

ANSWER: Herbie Hancock [or Herbert Hancock] (The song in the first line is “Cantaloupe Island.”)
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